Under Southern Eyes – Page 51 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

The Mascot: a puppet dog’s mission of self-sacrifice results in an amazing masterpiece of stop-motion animation

Wladyslaw Starewicz, “The Mascot / Fétiche Mascotte ” (1933) An amazing and brilliant short work

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Wladyslaw Starewicz, “The Cameraman’s Revenge” (1912) A deftly crafted and delightful animation short, this silent

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Otto Messmer, “Feline Follies” (1919) By no means a great cartoon or even a mildly

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Dick Huemer, “The Little Pest” (1931) Chiefly remarkable for its depiction of sibling-on-sibling violence, this

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Ub Iwerks, “Balloon Land” (1935) For sure this cartoon with the Hansel-and-Gretel morality fairy-tale plot

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William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, “Blue Cat Blues” (1956) With dark themes of depression, substance abuse

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Dave Fleischer, “Swing You Sinners!” (1930) A bizarre little cartoon short, filled with the most

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Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, “The Grayzone meets Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro” (The Grayzone Project,

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Tom Barbor-Might, “Nazi Quest for the Holy Grail” (2013) Of the mish-mash of strange and

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Ian Barber, “Father Brown (Episode 29: The Truth in the Wine)” (2015) Being laid up

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